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Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) was a Russian oil painting
artist and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century
artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract
works. Kandinsky was born in Moscow but spent his childhood in
Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose law and
economics. Although quite successful in his profession - he was
offered a professorship at the University of Dorpat - he started
painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age
of 30.
In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied at the Academy of Fine
Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1918 after the Russian
Revolution. Being in conflict with official theories on art, he
returned to Germany in 1921. There he was a teacher at the Bauhaus
from 1922 until it was closed by the Nazis in 1933. At that time he
moved to France. He lived the rest of his life there, becoming a
French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.
Kandinsky, himself an accomplished musician, once said Color is the
keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with
many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key
or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. The concept that color
and musical harmony are linked has a long history, intriguing
scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton. Kandinsky used color in a
highly theoretical way associating tone with timbre (the sound's
character), hue with pitch, and saturation with the volume of
sound. He even claimed that when he saw color he heard music.
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